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May 6, 2015
A popular northeast Seattle event is this Saturday evening, and a few tickets remain. The event is NEST’s annual community dinner, this time featuring northeast resident Steve Scher of KUOW fame. The dinner is a fund-raiser for NEST – North East Seattle Together. It will be held Saturday, May 9, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Faith …
May 6, 2015
The three-day Nathan Hale High School Horticulture Plant Sale began at 2 p.m. today. The wildly popular annual sale, featuring everything from hanging baskets to tomatoes, is at the school’s greenhouse, off of Northeast 110th Street and 34th Avenue Northeast, just north of Jane Addams Middle School. The sale runs until 6 p.m. today, from …
May 5, 2015
Poster at the park for the Maple Leaf Community Council on GiveBIG day. Perhaps you’ve already received an email. Or 12. From charities you support. It’s GiveBIG day. All donations made through The Seattle Foundation’s website on GiveBIG day will receive a percentage of the matching funds (or “stretch”) pool. This percentage depends on the …
May 4, 2015
Seeing this story in The Seattle Times today – “Seattle activists push for city-run, high-speed Internet service” – reminds us of the high level of interest in our last piece on CenturyLink and high-speed fiber-optic Internet here. Lots of folks wondered WHEN it might arrive in Maple Leaf. Joseph, for example, on April 17: “I’ve …